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* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

* The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * The fruit is rich in iron and copper. * It is a good bird plant with 3/8" purple-black fruit that they love to eat.

Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil. * A very ornamental shrub. * Requires a lime-free soil. Plants can only be grown in oceanic and Mediterranean climates, thriving in Britain.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

* Some Native American groups lit carefully planned controlled burns in wild huckleberry patches to promote fruit production by eliminating competing plants and by stimulating the huckleberry to sprout and spread.

It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before the leaves emerge in early spring. * The fruit is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple.

As plants take several years to flower in the wild, it is very sensitive to too-frequent burns and has been eliminated in some areas where this occurs. * Flowering is in autumn, or in winter in cooler areas; the inflorescences are flower spikes 7–22...

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Fruits are attractive to wildlife. Pubens (native to North America) was known as American red elder. * Sambucus racemosa, commonly known as red elder or red elderberry, is a deciduous suckering shrub which typically grows to 8-12' tall with a somewhat...

* The Vaccinium angustifolium plant is fire-tolerant and its numbers often increase in an area following a forest fire. * In 2006, production of wild blueberries in Quebec has reached 70 million pounds.

* A good ground-cover for steep sandy banks in a sunny position or in light shade. It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. The fruit is a red berry. The leaves are evergreen, remaining green for 1–3 years before falling.

It has many commercial uses. Tallowwood is drought and frost tender. * The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut.

* The Vaccinium angustifolium plant is fire-tolerant and its numbers often increase in an area following a forest fire. * In 2006, production of wild blueberries in Quebec has reached 70 million pounds.

* Sourwood or sorrel tree (Oxydendrum arboreum, /??ks??d?ndr?m ?r?b??ri?m/) is the sole species in the genus Oxydendrum, in the family Ericaceae. * A lovely native American with shiny dark green leaves, red, yellow, and purple in fall; an ericaceous plant...

It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico , to west Texas , where it grows in woodland, chaparral , forest, and other habitat.

This is an evergreen tree growing to 12 meters in height and width. * The fruit has a bitter-sweet flavour, tasting like an over-ripe banana. * Cornus capitata is a species of dogwood known by the common names Bentham's cornel , Himalayan flowering dogwood...

Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. * Ilex vomitoria ( Yaupon Holly , Yaupon , or Cassina ; the latter shared with Ilex cassine ), is a species...

They are found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere . * This is the commercial cranberry we eat during the holidays; an attractive plant in its own right, making a low, dense groundcover, with narrow 3/4" shiny dark green...

* The small, scented, cream-white flowers open in early summer, and are followed later by berries which start red and turn black when ripe. * Sakaki is one of the common trees in the second layer of the evergreen oak forests.

When fully ripe it falls from the tree and so it is advisable to grow the plant in short grass in order to cushion the fall of the fruit. The fruit contains about 20% sugars and can be used to make delicious and nourishing jams and preserves.

Each flower has opens into a corolla-like array of five pinkish red sepals with five smaller white petals in a tube at the center. It is somewhat waxy in texture and studded with glandular hairs.

* Prefers a good deep fertile loam which can be on the stiff side. * A fairly fast-growing tree, it is cultivated for its timber in C. * Tolerate: Drought, Dry Soil, Black Walnut, Air Pollution.

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

* Northern Highbush Blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum ) is a species of blueberry native to eastern North America , growing from Nova Scotia and Ontario south to Alabama , and west to Wisconsin .

* Native to Southeast Australia. * Grows very fast with masses of tiny yellow flowers, blue leaves and delicate textures. * A shrub or tree in the legume family. * The scientific name of the species honors the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey.

* An evergreen Tree growing to 10 m (32ft) by 10 m (32ft) at a slow rate. It is hardy to zone 7. * Lithocarpus densiflorus , commonly known as the Tanoak or Tanbark-oak , is an evergreen tree in the beech family Fagaceae , native to the western United...

* The small, scented, cream-white flowers open in early summer, and are followed later by berries which start red and turn black when ripe. * Sakaki is one of the common trees in the second layer of the evergreen oak forests.